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Ohio Travel Guide

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OHIO , the farthest east of the Great Lakes states, lies to the south of shallow
Lake Erie. This is one of the nation's most industrialized regions,
but the industry is largely concentrated in the east, near the Ohio
River. To the south the landscape becomes less populated and more
forested. Ohio also has the world's largest Amish population. They
farm in the northeast and west into mid-Indiana, and are much less
of a tourist attraction than the highly publicized Pennsylvania Dutch.

Enigmatic traces of Ohio's earliest inhabitants can be seen at
the Great Serpent Mound , a grassy state park sixty miles east
of Cincinnati, where a cleared hilltop high above a river was reshaped
to represent a giant snake swallowing an egg, possibly by the Adena
Indians around 800 BC. When the French claimed the area in 1699,
it was inhabited by the Iroquois , in whose language Ohio means "something
great." In the eighteenth century, its prime position between
Lake Erie and the Ohio River made it the subject of fierce contention
between the French and British. Once the British had acquired control
of most of the French land east of the Mississippi, settlers from
New England began to establish communities along both the Ohio
River and the Iroquois War Trail paths on the shores of the lake.

During the Civil War, Ohio was at the forefront of the struggle,
producing two great Union generals, Ulysses Grant and William Sherman,
and sending more than twice its quota of volunteers to fight for
the North. Its progress thereafter has followed the classic "Rust
Belt" pattern: rapid industrialization, aided by its natural
resources and crucial location, which during the 1970s foundered
alarmingly and has only recently shown any signs of resurgence.

Although the state is dominated by its triumvirate of "C"s
( Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati ), its most visited destinations
are the Lake Erie Islands , which have benefited from the recent
cleanup of the polluted lake and now attract thousands of partying
mainlanders. Cincinnati and Cleveland, the latter hit especially
hard by the recession, have both undergone major face-lifts and
are surprisingly attractive, as is the comparatively unassuming
state capital of Columbus.